Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.

Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.

In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles.

However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the mind.

we never know the blessings bestowed on us until we are separated from the possession of them.

The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.

Virtue, without the graces, is like a rich diamond unpolished--it hardly looks better than a common pebble; but when the hand of the master rubs off the roughness, and forms the sides into a thousand brilliant surfaces, it is then that we acknowledge its worth, admire its beauty, and long to wear it in our bosoms.